The 2026-27 Budget: Child Welfare

Mar 3, 2026 - Center for Excellence $750,000 ongoing beginning in 2022 ‑23. Emergency Response Augmentation $50 million one ‑time in 2021 ‑22 and again in 2022 ‑23, expendable for four years (through June 30, 2026 for the later allocation).
https://lao.ca.gov/publications/report/5147

The 2026-27 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Mar 3, 2026 - SSP Grants Were Increased in 2016-17, 2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023-24.  Since the Great Recession, as seen in Figure  2, grants for individuals and couples have been increased four times —in 2016-17 (by 2.76  percent), 2021-22 (by 23.95  percent), 2022-23 (by 10.3  percent), and 2023-24 (by 9.2  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5148

The 2026-27 Budget: CalWORKs

Feb 18, 2026 - Automatic Grant Increases Realignment Revenues Projected to Be Insufficient for Automatic Grant Increase in 2026. The Governor ’s budget revises downward projected realignment revenue growth in 2025-26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5122

The 2026-27 Budget: In-Home Supportive Services

Mar 18, 2026 - Revenues Generally Cover Costs Over Time. While realignment revenues will not cover all county responsibilities in each year, in general, revenues should grow sufficiently to cover county costs over time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5166

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Other Provisions

Oct 16, 2025 - Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 During the special session called by the Governor, the Legislature added Control Sections 90.00 and 90.01 to the 2024-25 Budget Act providing up to $2.5  billion one-time from the General Fund for response and recovery costs related to the January 2025 Southern California wildfires.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5081

The 2026-27 Budget: County Administration and H.R. 1 Implementation

Mar 5, 2026 - As counties take on an estimated $190  million in new annual CalFresh administrative costs due to H.R.  1, state revenues provided to counties through 1991 realignment do not automatically adjust upward to account for these additional costs, beyond normal growth in revenues.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5149

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Human Services

Nov 6, 2023 - Accordingly, the 2023-24 spending plan elevates the Home Care Services Bureau into a Branch, adding 15 positions to help set policy and to increase enforcement over unlicensed/unregistered home care organizations and aides.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4812/8

The 2024-25 Budget: Child Care

Apr 15, 2024 - Ultimately, 2023 ‑24 Proposition  64 revenues declined by a greater amount than the total 2022 ‑23 backfill set aside. As a result, the 2022 ‑23 backfill set aside could only partially backfill losses in Proposition  64 funds in 2023 ‑24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4893

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Community Services and Development

Feb 9, 2023 - Requires CSD to provide reports to the Legislature following allocation of the 2021-22 and of the 2022-23 assistance dollars specifying outcomes of CAPP, such as total number of residential customers assisted and total funds distributed by utility. 2022-23 language added a section to the Revenue and Taxation Code specifying that
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4674

The 2024-25 Budget: Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) Program

Feb 8, 2024 - Ad ditionally, while not COLAs, SSP grant increases were provided in 2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023-24. We describe those increases more fully below. During Great Recession, SSP Grants for Individuals and Couples Were Reduced to Federally Required Minimum.  
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4832